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Gilbert Harman is an American philosopher, teaching at Princeton University since 1963, who has published widely in philosophy of language, cognitive science, philosophy of mind, ethics, moral psychology, epistemology, statistical learning theory, and metaphysics. He and George Miller co-directed the Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory. Harman has taught or co-taught courses in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, Philosophy, and Linguistics.
He currently holds the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professorship in Philosophy. He has been named a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. He received the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris in 2005. In 2009 he received Princeton University's Behrman award for distinguished achievement in the humanities. His acceptance speech was titled "We need a linguistics department."
He has a BA from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. His most influential teachers were Michael Scriven, Willard Van Orman Quine, and Noam Chomsky. Some of his well-known students include Stephen Stich at Rutgers, James Dreier at Brown, Nicholas Sturgeon at Cornell, and Joshua Knobe at Yale.
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